Juan Peláez Movies

A private detective starts a game of cat and mouse with a psychopath who strangles women who leaves messages on the bodies of his victims.

Crime-y land-owner declares war on the family at the ranch next door for not having joined with him in his illegal enterprises.

In the seventies, Arturo Durazo, a close friend of the president, was asked to stop some arms smugglers.

Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle,...

The story concerns a young woman named Elena who ascends from rags to riches when she inherits a substantial fortune; having no one else with whom...

Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.

A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.

Rich entomologist René is accepted by a group of young rebels on the condition that they organize parties with his money. One day he proposes...

Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.

The leading edge of working-class discontent in a Mexican village is a troop of bandits hiding out in the hills; when the bandit leader is killed,...

Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune.

Based on the book by the same name, the film follows the exploits of Arturo "El Negro" Durazo, who was the head of the police department in Mexico...

Escaping after a heist, bank-robbers run afoul of an ex bounty hunter with whom they have back story.

A politically-themed stage play provokes a murder. Police detective walks the cast through a reenactment of their performance as a way of...

Mexican feature film

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico